Comments on: Counterparties: The American growth divide http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/22/counterparties-the-american-growth-divide/ A slice of lime in the soda Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Frwip http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/22/counterparties-the-american-growth-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-45626 Frwip Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:22:39 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20269#comment-45626 Wildly inaccurate predictions made at Davos? Who would have thunk? Given that most of those (mostly) guys in Davos have no idea how much a role plain dumb luck has played in their success (hint: essentially all of it), I wouldn't trust any of them to predict the color of the sky above their head 10 minutes in the future... Wildly inaccurate predictions made at Davos? Who would have thunk?

Given that most of those (mostly) guys in Davos have no idea how much a role plain dumb luck has played in their success (hint: essentially all of it), I wouldn’t trust any of them to predict the color of the sky above their head 10 minutes in the future…

]]> By: Christofurio http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/22/counterparties-the-american-growth-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-45624 Christofurio Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:48:31 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20269#comment-45624 "A conman faked a career as an economist and became an adviser to the World Bank" So there was this conman economist ... but, excuse me, I repeat myself.... “A conman faked a career as an economist and became an adviser to the World Bank”

So there was this conman economist … but, excuse me, I repeat myself….

]]> By: lambertstrether http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/01/22/counterparties-the-american-growth-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-45623 lambertstrether Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:22:01 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/?p=20269#comment-45623 So on "the value of finance"... I guess the great and the good at Davos won't be discussing harm to borrowers and orchestrated cover-ups during Bank of America's foreclosure reviews process? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-whistleblowers-provide-extensive-evidence-of-borrower-harm-and-orchestrated-coverup.html So on “the value of finance”… I guess the great and the good at Davos won’t be discussing harm to borrowers and orchestrated cover-ups during Bank of America’s foreclosure reviews process?

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/b ank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-whist leblowers-provide-extensive-evidence-of- borrower-harm-and-orchestrated-coverup.h tml

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